Let Freedom Ring!

Happy America day to you all! I hope your day is as filled with beer, BBQ and Bruce Willis movies as mine is about to be!

SHORTS: Urban Outfitters
TANK: American Apparel
VEST: thrifted
BELT: thrifted (Buffalo Exchange)
BOOTS: thrifted (Buffalo Exchange)
BUCKET BAG: vintage (Laced With Romance)
SUNGLASSES: Pixie Market
NECKLACES: Nature’s Treasures; gift; Brazil
FEATHER EARRING: self made
RINGS: vintage; Turquoise Trading Post
FAN: Vietnam (gift from my mom which has come in very handy during these stifling 100+ degree days)

Went vintage shopping yesterday on a whim and found this spectacular vintage leather bucket bag at Laced with Romance on South 1st. I’ve been looking for one of these for ages, but all the ones I found (specifically on Santoki) are upwards of $100 and that just seems like too exorbitant a price for a bag previously used by another person. On my way into the store a crusty old cowboy smoking a cigarette complimented me on my cow print cowboy boots and I felt totally legit. Then I spilled kombucha on my shorts and felt like my clumsy, awkward self again.

On Saturday I went swimming at McKinney Falls State Park with Alexis and Leslie. It’s so beautiful out there but the lack of rain has left the swimming holes extremely shallow and filled with warm water so swimming offered little relief from the staggering heat outside. After a few hours we cut our losses and headed over to Tanglewood where the pool water was clean and cold, and some 26 yr old tried to sell us weed while taking care of his 2 yr old son and drinking beer. It was weird. It was Austin.

I haven’t washed my hair since swimming and I’m pretty into this messy, unkempt thing it’s doing. Halfway between curly and dreadlocks, I now have this crazy bird’s nest matted on my head and I’m enjoying seeing how totally wild I can make it look.